{"id":520138,"date":"2022-12-03T01:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/evidence-shows-trump-explicitly-okd-tax-fraud\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T01:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:21:20","slug":"evidence-shows-trump-explicitly-okd-tax-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/evidence-shows-trump-explicitly-okd-tax-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"#Evidence shows Trump &#8216;explicitly&#8217; OK&#8217;d tax fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e709329b70\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e709329b70\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/evidence-shows-trump-explicitly-okd-tax-fraud\/#Evidence_shows_Trump_%E2%80%98explicitly_OKd_tax_fraud\" >Evidence shows Trump &#8216;explicitly&#8217; OK&#8217;d tax fraud<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Evidence_shows_Trump_%E2%80%98explicitly_OKd_tax_fraud\"><\/span>Evidence shows Trump &#8216;explicitly&#8217; OK&#8217;d tax fraud<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 In the end, it wasn&#8217;t a last-minute smoking gun but a prosecutor insisting that evidence shows Donald Trump was aware of a scheme that his Trump Organization\u2019s executives hatched to avoid paying personal income taxes on millions of dollars worth of company-paid perks.<\/p>\n<p>After telling jurors on Thursday that Trump \u201cknew exactly what was going on&#8221; with the scheme, Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Joshua Steinglass followed up by citing trial evidence and testimony that he said made clear \u201cMr. Trump is explicitly sanctioning tax fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steinglass, speaking on the last day before deliberations at the Trump Organization&#8217;s criminal tax fraud, showed jurors a lease Trump signed for one executive&#8217;s Manhattan apartment and a memo the former president initialed authorizing a pay cut for another executive who got perks.<\/p>\n<p>He also cited Weisselberg\u2019s claim, during his three days of testimony, that he told Trump he would pay him back after Trump agreed to cover his grandchildren&#8217;s hefty private school tuition cost. Weisselberg then adjusted his payroll records to cut his pre-tax salary by the cost of the tuition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mention this all to show that this whole narrative that Mr. Trump was blissfully ignorant is just not real,&#8221; Steinglass said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump himself is not on trial, as Steinglass reminded jurors, but Judge Juan Manuel Merchan gave him the green light to talk about Trump\u2019s possible awareness of the scheme after the company&#8217;s lawyers, in their summations, claimed that Trump knew nothing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has denied knowing that Weisselberg and other executives were dodging taxes, writing on his Truth <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social<\/a> platform this week: \u201cThere was no gain for \u2018Trump,\u2019 and we had no knowledge of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Steinglass finished Friday, Trump Organization lawyer Michael van der Veen asked Merchan to declare a mistrial, arguing that the prosecutor had irreparably harmed the defense by effectively portraying Trump as a co-conspirator in the tax fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s necessary to declare a mistrial. That\u2019s not really even a thought,\u201d Merchan said, agreeing to instead caution jurors about Steinglass\u2019 remarks.<\/p>\n<p>But Steinglass\u2019 sudden focus on Trump\u2019s knowledge of the scheme, right as the Trump company\u2019s trial was ambling to a conclusion, begged the question: Why wasn&#8217;t he charged, too?<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office declined comment, citing the ongoing trial. District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who inherited the case when he took office in January, has said that an investigation of Trump is \u201cactive and ongoing,\u201d and that no decision has been made on whether to charge him.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Organization, the entity through which Trump manages his golf courses, hotels and other ventures, is charged with helping some top executives avoid paying income taxes on non-monetary compensation. The company&#8217;s case is the only trial to arise from the Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office&#8217;s three-year investigation of Trump and his business practices.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors argue that the company is liable because Weisselberg and an underling he worked with on the scheme, controller Jeffrey McConney, were \u201chigh managerial\u201d agents entrusted to act on behalf of the company and its various entities. If convicted, the company could be fined more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The defense has alleged that Weisselberg came up with the tax dodge scheme on his own, without Trump or the Trump family knowing, and that the company didn\u2019t benefit from his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here today for one reason and one reason only: the greed of Allen Weisselberg,\u201d Trump Organization lawyer Susan Necheles said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Weisselberg testified that Trump didn\u2019t know, but that the Trump Organization did derive some benefit because it didn\u2019t have to pay him as much in actual salary. Van der Veen peppered his summation Thursday with the defense\u2019s mantra: \u201cWeisselberg did it for Weisselberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir entire theory of the case is a fraud,\u201d Steinglass said Friday morning before the jury entered the courtroom, as company lawyers were seeking to temper his rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>One company-paid Manhattan apartment even went to Weisselberg\u2019s son, Barry, ostensibly so he could respond quickly to emergencies at the Central Park ice rink the company managed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all part of the Trump executive compensation package: free cars for you, free cars for your wife, free apartments for you, free apartments for your kids,\u201d Steinglass said. Barry Weisselberg, he quipped, \u201cwasn\u2019t living on a Zamboni in Wollman Rink. He was living in an apartment on Central Park South.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the outset of the trial, Merchan cautioned the defense and prosecution to avoid talking about Trump so as to not give jurors the impression that longtime real estate honcho was, or should have been, sitting at the defense table.<\/p>\n<p>But the judge noted Friday that the tenor of the trial changed after defense lawyers and prosecutors frequently mentioned Trump during arguments and testimony, even though he did not testify and did not attend the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Steinglass, wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing his summation, told jurors that Trump was \u201cthe elephant that\u2019s not in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>Follow Michael Sisak on Twitter at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikesisak\" data-ylk=\"slk:twitter.com\/mikesisak\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">twitter.com\/mikesisak<\/a> and send confidential tips by visiting <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/tips\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/www.ap.org\/tips\/\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">https:\/\/www.ap.org\/tips\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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